Jersey Law 12/1978

 

LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (JERSEY) LAW, 1978.

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A LAW     to enable the parties to a marriage to sue each other in tort, and to extend the period within which proceedings may be instituted for certain offences, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

 

25th day of JULY, 1978.

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(Registered on the 3rd day of November, 1978).

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STATES OF JERSEY.

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The 14th day of March, 1978.

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THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law –

ARTICLE 1

ACTIONS IN TORT BETWEEN HUSBAND AND WIFE

Each of the parties to a marriage shall have the like right of action in tort against the other as if they were not married:

Provided that this Article shall not apply to any cause of have the like right of action which arose, or would marriage have arisen, before the commencement of this Law.

ARTICLE 2

EXTENSION OF PRESCRIPTION PERIOD OF OFFENCES

(1)           In this Article “offence” means any ‘délit’ and any infraction or contravention of an enactment.

(2)           Subject to the provisions of any other enactment, the period within which proceedings may be instituted in respect of an offence shall be three years from the date of commission of the offence:

Provided that nothing in this Article shall revive any proceedings which were barred by prescription before the commencement of this Law.

ARTICLE 3

ENACTMENT REPEALED

The “Loi (1843) sur le Prescription des Poursuites”1 is hereby repealed.

ARTICLE 4

CITATION

This Law may be cited as the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Jersey) Law, 1978.

 

R.S. GRAY

 

Deputy Greffier of the States.